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Herzog

Saul Bellow

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#525 of 8,085 books · #280 in Fiction

Won the National Book Award for Fiction (1965).

Saul Bellow's Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern age. In a crumbling house which he shares with rats, his head buzzing with ideas, he writes frantic, unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, the living and the dead, revealing the spectacular workings of his labyrinthine mind and the innermost secrets of his troubled heart.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780141975030
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Divorce and betrayalIdentity and mental turmoilModern intellectual life

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